"I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up."
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"If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it."
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"Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells."
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"Art is science made flesh."
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"My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep."
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"Flesh forgets. Bone remembers."
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"I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something."
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"In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity."
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"Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it."
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"The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered."
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"Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram."
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"It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us."
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"Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast."
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"We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood."
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